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Add a package dependency to a DESCRIPTION file

Usage

desc_set_dep(
  package,
  type = desc::dep_types,
  version = "*",
  file = ".",
  normalize = FALSE
)

Arguments

package

Package to depend on.

type

Dependency type.

version

Version to depend on, for versioned dependencies.

file

DESCRIPTION file to use. By default the DESCRIPTION file of the current package (i.e. the package the working directory is part of) is used.

normalize

Whether to "normalize" (reorder and reformat) the fields when writing back the result. See desc_normalize().

See also